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B00785	Meditations for the passion weeke following the order of the time and story. / By N. Taylour..	Taylour, N. (Nathanael).	1627 (1627)	STC 23857.5; ESTC S95495	34,588	201

affectionate for it is the Nature of Love to shew it selfe most loving when it is a leaving So have I seene two friends that having kept their countenance till they were to part yet then could hold no longer but burst out and wept of meere affection If thou aske how thou shouldst get so neere thy Saviour as tosee and heare him I answer draw neere unto him by Prayer by Fasting by Thankfulnes by Repentance meditate of him all the day long and of the price and Love of his Passion and when thou hast done thus on the Day time at Night lay the same thoughts under thy pillow and rest upon them or rather upon him sleeping and waking Thus shalt thou both follow him to his lodging and Inne with him too And if thou doest this every Night thou doest but thy duty for this is a weeke that should thriftily be divided into houres and minutes by hearing reading prayer or meditation which at Night should be laid up within thee to digest and ere the Morning they will be a part of thee as thy nourishment is And one thing let us observe to this purpose ere we leave this Day That the matter which Christ uttered this day was not written that wee might have one day at least in this weeke free for meditation Meditations for TUESDAY RIse up with thy Saviour O my soule and put on him for thy garments that thou maiest follow backe this morning to Ierusalem Cleave to him also as he goes and listen what he sayes for this is a day in which the double doore of his lips is open to poure forth the treasure of his heart even the riches of his wisdome and mercy unto those that have eares and hearts to receive them for this day he not only teaches his owne but puts his enemies to silence by the evidence of his wisdome and utterly convinces them His Disciples give him the first occasion of speaking by shewing him the fig-tree which he had cursed yesterday this Morning withered up by the rootes which whilest they beheld with admiration they are bold to make him also acquainted with in these words How soone is the fig-tree withered A marvaile was this nay a miracle too and that in this tree above other Trees for the fig-tree is call'd Sapiens arbor that is the wise tree because it never puts out till the Spring be confirm'd Winter utterly over therefore of all trees it is least subject to blasting Iud. 9.11 For this cause among other the figtree in the booke of Iudges it may be is put among those wise trees that refuse the Kingdome over the other But there is no wisdome nor understanding nor counsell against the Lord if Christ command the poore fig-tree must wither have it never so well provided against weather in his late and deliberate budding This is the very use that our Saviour makes of this accident for hence he takes occasion to shew his Disciples what miracles their faith should worke if it were true and setled that it should not only have Trees but the Earth and Sea obedient to it so that mountaines should remoove and the Sea stand still at their faith were it not wavering This is much but the next priviledge is greater namely that they should obtaine of GOD whatsoever they askt in Christs Name observing but one condition that is to forgive as they wold be forgivē Me thinkes this is something like mans state in his innocency who had but one condition to observe to keepe himselfe happy even as Mankind heere in the person of the Disciples hath but one rule prescribed to restore it to GODS favour by forgivenes that is to forgive others who repent towards them Mankind I say not the Disciples alone for in other places our Saviour makes both the duty and condition generall Therfore looke to thy faith whosoever thou art for thou art warn'd as well as the Disciples and if thou looke thy prayer should find enterance by it to obtaine forgivenes in Christ beleeve this one thing ere thou begin to pray That Faith is not faith unlesse Love goe with it thou must forgive therefore and that from the bottome of thy Heart thy repentant Brother which is a worke of Love or else thou canst never be forgiven With the end of this doctrine wee are come now with our Saviour into Ierusalem and no sooner there but entred into the Temple which to this purpose lay next the gate that led to Bethanle that Christ might have the readier entrance into his owne house There he hath not beene long a teaching saith S. Matthew and that as hee was walking saith S. Marke because hee would loose no time but the cheife Preists and Scribes and Elders of the people all men of authority and therefore the Pharisies who were a kind of Monkes were not with them are upon him to know his authority It was a part of High Treason if they would have considered it for them to call him to account for his authority from whom they held theirs for if they were High Preists hee was their King if they were Scribes hee was their High Preist if they were Elders hee was from everlasting For this cause hee pleases not to answere them directly but by another question touching the Baptisme of Iohn whether it was from Heaven or of men This was a question that they were sure to be taken in whatsoever they answer'd for if the said it was of men they feared the people least they should stone thē because all men held Iohn for a Prophet if they said from Heaven they condemned themselves for not beleeving Iohn nor Christ neither whom Iohn had taught and pointed at when hee said Behold the Lambe of God and againe when hee said This is hee who commeth after mee but is greater then I whose shoe latchet I am not worthy to unloose Therefore when they would not speake truth for shameing and durst not speake falshood for endangering themselves they unfitly for men of place and learning put the question off with Wee cannot tell and because they would not confesse the truth that they knew neither therfore will our Saviour instruct them who are already enform'd yet contrary to their conscience deny to know that which they knew well enough For they had evidences enough not only to teach but enforce upon them also that our Lords authority could not but be from GOD but Pride would not suffer them to acknowledge him For this cause hee who resists the proud and gives grace to the humble cared not to give grace to them who were not humble enough to stoop to his authority but leaves them to the hardnes of their harts even till they come to that height of malice as to crucifie him who sought their Salvation This teaches us to take heed how we oppose our selves to the knowne Truth least wee bee left to our selves as these High Preists Scribes Elders were to crucifie againe the

MEDITATIONS for the Passion Weeke Following the order of the Time and Story By N. TAYLOVR 1. Pet. 2.21 Christ also suffered for us leaving us an example that yee should follow his steps Who his owne selfe bare our sinnes in his owne body on the Tree that Wee beeing dead to sinnes should live unto righteousnes by whose stripes ye were healed Printed by the Printers to the Vniversity of CAMBRIDGE MDCXXVII To the Right Worsh Mr. Doctr. MAW Master of Trinitie Colledge in Cambridge Right worthy and Worshipfull I Have no better way to shew my thankefull remembrance of your love and care over me then by sending you my thoughts that is a fewe of my better Meditations written for mine owne use and perhaps not worthy your acceptance yet such as they are I hope they will finde the same favour with you that my selfe have done which though it bee too much for me to expect yet I can hope for no lesse in regard of the gentlenesse of your nature and forwardnes to respect me before I had time to deserve of you The thing I aimed at in them was to make the Storie they belong to as orderly as it is perfect so that if they have no other use they may stand in stead of an harmony to right any doubt about our Saviours sufferings As for Devotion which I desired to stirre up in my selfe and others by them it could not bee bestowed upon a better subject howbeit if having the best I have fail'd or my affections want heate of zeale I hope nevertheles that my sparke may kindle a greater fire where it findes sewell by the light of which many may both see and bee warmed And now I have brought my worke to the fire you may doe to it as you please for I put it into your hands desiring pardon for my boldnes and so ending with my daily prayers for your daily encrease in all things that may make you an happie Governour of the Society you are in or may rise to Your Worships in all dutie NATH TAYLOVR ¶ Meditations for SUNDAY Beeing the first day in the weeke by the Iewes account EVerie Day hath his Night every Summer his Winter every Spring his Fall and every Life his Death And as some Nights are darker then other some Autumnes more unseasonable some Winters more sharpe so are some Death 's more yea much more cruell then other be Some men fall like fruite other are cut downe like trees some are pluckt up in the flower other by the roote that is some men die onely Suet. Aug. Non aliter quàm simplics morte puntit other with torment which is two or more deaths in one Yet one thing neverthelesse this diversitie findes to agree in That all men die with paine for two such friends as the soule and bodie are cannot be parted without grieving or to speake more to the quicke Two which Nature nay GOD himselfe once joyned together to make but one Person cannot be severed again without cutting neither is it an ordinary paine that divides these two but such an one as can but once be suffered and hath a name by it selfe as it hath also a nature different from other paines for we call it The Pang of Death which paine though we cannot learne what bounds it hath because it is a pain that comes not to his height till wee be past telling where it holds us yet can wee easily discerne that it is not alike in every man for the strugling in some and the quietnes in other shew either the paine to be more or the patience lesse and yet a strong patience will often out-beare a grievous extreamitie with little appearance of griefe so that this Fit hath many mervailes in it if any one could come againe like Lazarus to tel us them But among all Deaths whatsoever they bee never was any so strange as our Saviours was for in it both paine and patience met in their extremities so that paine did her worst to overcome patience and patience her best to overcome paine and yet neither paine had the upper hand though it killed nor patience lost though Christ died because he that suffered suffered but at his owne will and his suffering besides was the paine of Paine yea the death of Death it selfe yet howsoever it prevailed not so great nevertheles was this Passion so grievous as it hath nor can have none to sample it for Christs paine was such as never Creature felt neither can doe and on the other side his patience so great as for all the sorrow hee suffered on the Crosse he is not read to have uttered a groane there So that it may be easily discerned that Patience had the victorie because paine could neither make her leave the field till shee list nor bring her to any conditions but her own which were most honourable This is but one occurrence but the Death I have named containes further a Story that may take up Reader thy whole intention for in it thou shalt see wonder at it a Crosse set up to crucifie GOD on Life condemned to die Righteousnesse to suffer and which is more all this effected yet nothing done to advance the contrarie partie for through Christs Bodie Death slew it selfe and Sinne and Satan tooke their deadly wounds See againe and againe wonder at it Patience exalted upō her Throne the Crosse and crowned with Thorne whereof every point is deadly yet still unmooved and like her Selfe And as thou readst these things written with blood in stead of inke upon the wide-open Booke of the Crosse if thou apply them to thy selfe and weigh them in thy heart as Marie did they were for thee all suffered and Christs victorie is become thy hope of glory his Crosse is thy Crowne his suffering thy salvation his death thy life Here is now a Booke written in red letters laid open for thee to reade on I meane the Crosse and every word in it must be read two wayes as having a double and contrary signification When thou beginnest to reade everie thing signifies as thou seest it written but when thou commest to construe them they meane quite otherwise For at first thou shalt see scorn shame suffering death and all these laid upon Innocencie for thy Sin but this when thou hast acknowledged thou must reade every word contrarie over againe so that then shame is glorie suffering is victorie death is life both to him that bore them and to thee that beleevest And now thou hast the secret of this strange Character ply thy book hard and take out of it as much as thou canst for thy learning especially this weeke thou must do it because this is the verie time in which these things were first written not with inke as I said but with his blood that died for thee Reade then and learne and meditate and apply which all thou maist do though thou bee no scholler for he that never saw booke before may knowe